VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (letter)

Men's attitudes

January 22, 2006|By Steve Gillenwater

Oak Park — I think letter writer Ken Hansen's diatribe on overturning Roe vs. Wade ("A state issue," Voice of the people, Jan. 16) told me all I need to know about the attitudes of many men in the right-to-life movement. In the 10 paragraphs that he writes about his joy at the prospect of overturning Roe vs. Wade, he fails to mention the words "woman" and "childbearing" even once, and his only reference to motherhood is in the context of who will control a mother's womb.

Hint: In his world, he and a bunch of middle-age male state legislators will take control of the wombs and reproductive decisions for every woman in the state--a truly frightening prospect.

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